8) This describes the essential skills and knowledge and their level, required for this unit. Evidence shall show that knowledge has been acquired of safe working practices and developing engineering solutions to photonic problems. All knowledge and skills detailed in this unit should be contextualised to current industry practices and technologies. KS01-EE128A Photonic principles and applications Evidence shall show an understanding of photonic principles and applications to an extent indicated by the following aspects: T1 Photonic principles Measurements on the optical devices that are used in a basic fibre optic link Optical devices making up an optical fibre link The interconnection of optical devices that make up a one way optical fibre link The construction of an LED optical light source The electrical and optical parameters of LASERs LED and LASER light sources PN photodiodes and phototransistors The electrical and optical parameter The basic capability of optical technology involving energy transfer, communications, sensing, miniaturisation and signal processing T2 The environmental advantages and impacts of optical technology The nature and importance of innovation The triple bottom line of business: economic, social and environmental as it relates to optical technology Scenario development using a variety of expressive methods to explore alternatives. Information networking Medical applications. Teleworking applications. Education applications Opportunities in the optical industry in Australia Innovations in business using optical technology Innovations in the provision of infrastructure in Australia T3 Basic geometric optics T4 Introduction to photonic components T5 The basic concepts of optical transmission encompassing: 'Atmospheric' and 'guided' optical transmission systems Fibre 'guided' systems compared to 'atmospheric' systems T6 Photonic components and component technologies encompassing: Differentiate between 'passive' and 'active' photonic components Identify and describe optical component technologies T7 Photonic components and their roles in photonic devices encompassing: Operational concepts of components and devices, Active verses passive devices Available photonic devices and their constituent components Photonic device operation T8 Operating principles of optical couplers and their characteristics encompassing: Optical couplers. Loss Number of ports Directionality Wavelength selectivity 'T' and 'Y' couplers '1-to-N' or 'Tree' couplers Star couplers Wavelength selective couplers Bulk and micro-optic technologies Fused fibre technology Planar waveguides technology Fibre-grating technology T9 Components for WDM systems encompassing: Passive and active components for WDM systems Filters (Interference and Absorption) Bulk optical gratings Arrayed waveguides Attenuators Line and Band filters Equalising filters Fixed and Tunable filters Optical Isolators (including Faraday Effect) Dispersion compensators Multiplexers or combiners Demultiplexers or splitters Routers Add/Drop multiplexers Interconnection techniques used between optical components used in each optical Devices T10 Operational principles of key photonic devices encompassing: The difference between multimode and single mode fibre, Attenuation, Dispersion Spontaneous and stimulated emission of light |